IF
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT IS REQUIRED FOR
FURTHER DISTRIBUTION. IT SHOULD BE PARAPHRASED SO THAT NO
MENTION IS MADE OF THE PRISONERS' NAMES, NOR OF THE
METHODS BY WHICH THE INFORMATION HAS BEEN
OBTAINED

and two other German senior officer P/W, whose voices
could not be identified.

Information received: 22 Jul 43

TRANSLATION

M 159 [von Thoma]: (re LANGHOFEN's book on
concentration-camp): It's an exceedingly frank, just and
well-written book. Then, this quarrel between GÖRING
and HIMMLER about the Gestapo - he (HIMMLER) wanted to
get his S.S. out of the camps in PRUSSIA, and GÖRING
as the Prussian Minister insisted on keeping them. All
this is in the book. It's very interesting.

?: Have you finished it?

M 159: Yes, BASSENGE (P/W) has got it. Ask BASSENGE
whether he has finished it, or perhaps he is reading
something else at the moment, then you can read it
straight away.

?: And what's it called?

M 159: BÜRGERMOOR, the BÜRGERMOOR
Concentration Camp. You can accept what you read in this
book about the life there as true fact. There is no
doubt, I -- believe, that dirty work was done, especially
at interrogations. I myself know of a number of people to
whom this and that has happened. There were scoundrels
there who simply went about beating up the people, and
things like that.